What? A series from China with unambiguous BL? Watching this makes me feel like I have taken a time machine back to the time before BL series were banned in China. In fact, even the production quality seems to be something from the past.

It is unfortunate that this is a miniseries. It feels more like a summary edit of a longer series than an actual series, not just because the episodes are short but also because of abrupt jumps that causes the viewer to have to infer what has happened in between. The good thing is, considering the constraints, the telling of the story is still acceptably competent. It's not a bad story at all; it's just that we become painfully aware that we are not watching the entire story and won't get to watch it.

Another flaw of the series is that, except for the acting of Zhou Jun Yu (who plays Jiang Yi Feng) and a couple of older actors, the acting is sometimes a little too awkward and would have benefited from retakes. Thankfully, the scenes with the two leads clearly being in love are at least okay. They stop short of an on-screen kiss, but at least an off-screen one is implied. And their relationship is not ambiguous (you can't explain it as bromance), e.g. when Jiang Yi Feng gets jealous when Lu Lin innocuously says something comparing him to another person he has dated, and Lu Lin tries to clarify it.

If nothing else, it's worth watching this series for how impossible it seems. (I'm not sure if it could be an unreleased series that ran into the BL ban in China before it could be released and recently got acquired by Gagaoolala.)